Garment hanger



Dec. 6, 1949 s, ROSENBERG 5 2,490,475

GARMENT HANGER Filed Oct. 16, 1946 INVEN TOR. 56.4 @Mo/V /60 SaNsE/ee.

Patented Dec. 6, 1949 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1 claim. 1

My invention relates to garment hangers and has for its principal objects, to generally improve upon and simplify the construction of the existing forms of garment han-gers; further. to provide a simple. practical and inexpensive hanger particularly designed for the convenient suspension of garments such as coats. vests. jackets. skirts, trousers and the like, and further, to provide a hanger that includes a spring pressed gripping member shaped so as to be conveniently engaged and lifted from its garment gripping position.

- With the foregoing and other obiects in View, my invention consists in certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts which will be hereinafter more fully described and A claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawings. in which:

Fig. 1 is an elevational view of my improved garment hanger with portions of one end in vertical section.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged cross section taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged vertical section taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

Referring by numerals to the accompanying drawings which illustrate a preferred embodiment of by invention, I designates the upper member of the hanger body which may be formed of plastics, wood or metal, preferably arch shaped so as to conform to the shape of the shoulders of coats, vests, jackets and like garments, and projecting upwardly from the center of this member I0 is a hook II, whereby the hanger may be suspended from a rail, hook or other support.

Formed integral with and depending from the end portions of member I 0 are short vertically disposed legs I2, which are preferably inset short distances from the ends of said member and formed in these legs are vertically disposed pockets I3 open on the inner sides of said legs.

Connecting the lower ends of legs I2 below the pockets I3 is a. straight rail I4. Positioned between member I0 and rail I4 is a slightly arched rail I5 which functions as a handle and seated in the upper centra1 portion of this rail are the lower ends of pins I6 which extend upwardly and are arranged for sliding movement through vertical bores I1 formed in member I0, in the sides of hook Il.

Formed integral with the ends of arched rail I5 are short horizontally disposed rails I8 which normally bear on top of the ends portions of rail I4, and formed through the ends of said rails I8 that are positioned in the pockets I3, are vertically disposed apertures I9.

The ends of pins are seated in the ends of rail I4 and the ends of member I0, which pins extend through the apertures I9 and pockets I3, and mounted on each pin, between the ends of member I0 and the outer ends of rails I8, are expansive coil springs 2l.

Thus, the springs 2l exert downward pressure on rails I8, so as to grip those portions of garments hanging from rail I4 and underlying said rails I8.

In the use of my improved garment hanger. the shoulder portions of coats, vests, jackets, and the like rest on the upner edge of member I0. while garments such as trousers, slacks and skirts hung over said rail I4 are clamped thereto by the spring pressed rails I8.

To lift the rails I8 from rail I4, it is only necessary to elevate rail I5 by upward pressure thereon, by the lingers or thumb of the hand holding the hanger and during such movement of said rail I5, it is prevented from canting and consequent binding, by the pins I6 which slide freely through bores I'I in member I0, thus providing a positive guide.

Thus it will be seen that I have provided a l garment hanger which is simple in structure, in-

expensive of manufacture and very eiTective in performing the functions for which it is intended.

Minor changes in the size, form and construction of the various parts of my improved garment hanger may be made and substituted Ifor those herein shown and described without departing from the spirit of the invention, the scope of which is set forth in the appended claim.

I claim as my invention:

In a garment hanger, an arched upper member, short legs depending from the ends of said member, which legs are provided with pockets, a rail integrally connecting the lower ends of said legs, an arched handle disposed between said arched upper member and said rail, short rails carried by the ends of said handle and bearing on top of the end portions of said first vmentioned rail, the ends of which short rails extend into the lower portions of said pockets, pins seated in the ends of said upper member and in the lower ends of said legs, which pins extend through said pockets and through the ends of said short rails, expansive springs on said pins within said pockets, and bearing on the ends of said short rails, spaced apertures in the central portion of said arched upper member and vertical guide pins having their lower ends seated in the central portion of said arched handle, with their upper portions slidably varranged in said apertures.

SOLOMON ROSENBERG.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the iile of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,377,443 Shelly May 10, 1921 1,524,810 Bolen Feb. 3, 1925 1,980,939 Goerner Nov. 13, 1934 2,104,305 Marble Jan. 4, 1938 2,377,218 Ellis May 29, 1945 

